A shout-out to Ergonis for saving me – so far – nearly four entire months of 16-hour days of my life!
Bill Thayer
Chicago, IL, USA
Romans 8:38-39 King James Version (KJV). 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Typinator is the best thing since sliced bread!
Michele DeFilippo
(Book designer) Typinator is the BEST utility I have purchased in a very long time. I tested a couple of other products before purchasing yours and only Typinator was 100% rock-solid.
Hugh Nagle, Ireland
- September 15, 2017 at 11:38 pm I've never been able to find or make an automator workflow that was useful for my Mac life. Automator seems to almost exclusively work with and between Apple-created software apps, so it has very limited usefulness in my world, where I use a lot of non-Apple applications.
- Parallels articles on MacRumors.com. Parallels Toolbox for Mac has been updated to version 3.5 with a handful of new one-click shortcuts, including clipboard history, a sleep timer, an energy.
Michael Hyatt,
www.michaelhyatt.com
Typinator is faster and less wonky than TextExpander. Looks like I have a new macro program.
Jon Stokes,
San Francisco, CA Typinator is a killer app to save time and increase productivity! I could not think of working on my Mac without it.
Fred Colantonio
Marketing and Internet Consultant By far, the best Mac text expander I've seen. I've tried others, and Typinator easily rises to 'best in class.'
Jim Cole, Jacksonville, FL One of the most useful programs for the Mac. I use this program hundreds of times a day. It's a HUGE time-saver.
Wilma Keppel, macupdate.com I'm here to say I'm totally loyal to Typinator! I've got a real speed up coding with it and consequently more spare time.
Erik Patrick,
web developer This product is brilliant. I got so spoiled within the first hour that I can't quite figure out how I got along without it so many years.
Mary van Bronkhorst
Online Game Designer
First Mac software ever that convinced me to register after a trial period of 5 minutes. Good job!
Hans Trygve Jensen
web designer
As usual with Ergonis's products, simplicity and reliability are the watchwords.
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- Version:8.6
- Release Date:December 16, 2020
- System Req:Mac OS X 10.8 or newer
- Languages:EN, DE, FR
- Price: 24.99 €
Have you ever experienced the tedium and frustration of having to repeatedly type your name, e-mail address, home page url, or other words or phrases again, again and again? Do you frequently need to quickly insert images like your signature, location plan, or company logo into documents? Do you often misspell words when typing?
Typinator boosts your productivity by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics and auto-correcting typing errors.
With thousands of predefined corrections for common typos and misspelled words for US and British English, German and French, Typinator is not only a typing assistant that speeds repetitive typing tasks, but also a system-wide auto-correction tool that automatically fixes typing errors and misspelled words.
Setup is easy: You just define an abbreviation along with its replacement text or picture.
Usage is even easier: Whenever you type one of your abbreviations in any application, Typinator inserts the corresponding replacement.
Words cannot describe the huge benefits Typinator offers to you.
Get an impression how Typinator can boost your productivity and save you a lot of time in only three minutes by watching our new short and sweet product videos..
.. and download a fully functional trial version.
macOS Catalina introduced a change that affects older versions of Typinator. Specifically, Typinator versions older than 8.2 refuse to launch on Catalina and newer. To ensure smooth transition, we therefore strongly recommend to update Typinator to the latest version before upgrading macOS to Catalina or Big Sur.
For more information, please see our compatibility page.
If you don't own a license for Typinator 8 yet, you may purchase a license update at 50% off the regular price. If you purchase a license update now, all further minor 8.x updates are included for free.
With a new statistics mode, magic keys, integrated menu bar and many more improvements, Typinator 8 is the best text expander in town.
Typinator 8 comes with a long list of new features and improvements, which make Typinator 8 the best text expander ever.
Typinator 8 offers a new statistics mode, where you can see the usage counts for abbreviations and sets, and how long ago an abbreviation has been used most recently. You can also sort your snippets by these values, to see which abbreviations you are using frequently and which ones you may have forgotten about. Lingon x 6 6 11. Creative market authentic hdr photoshop action 1165985 download free.
Another great new feature of Typinator 8 are Magic Keys. You can now use the modifier keys Shift, Control, Option, and Command in abbreviations, as if they were real characters. This allows you to use them as special trigger characters and offers a simple way to avoid conflicts in abbreviations.
A very slick user interface enhancement is the new 'mini menu bar' right above the expansion field, where you can find all markers and editing functions in one central place. A nice side-effect of this improvement is that the expansion field is now wider and you have more space to enter your expansions.
New is also the integration with PopChar. With PopChar 8.2 or newer installed, you can now use Typinator to search for and insert arbitrary Unicode characters by their name or Unicode number. In combination with a hotkey for Typinator's quick search, this is a great way to type arbitrary Unicode characters without taking your hands off the keyboard.
See the features page on for a short description of the most important new features and improvements. For a complete list of all the improvements in Typinator 8, please see the version history.
During the past, we could welcome many former TextExpander customers who switched to Typinator because they were unsatisfied with TextExpander and wanted a more robust and speedier solution.
Since more and more TextExpander users are now switching to Typinator, we have create a special page with helpful information for seamless migration from TextExpander to Typinator.
With Typinator 8, migration from TextExpander became even easier, as Typinator now comes with an improved import function for existing TextExpander snippets.
Read testimonials about the switching experience of former TextExpander users.
Personal productivity
- Set up a list of often used e-mail phrases, addresses and other boilerplates.
- Insert the current date and/or time in a variety of formats with a few keystrokes.
- Auto-correct commonly misspelled words across all the applications you use.
- Insert pictures, such as signatures and smilies.
Business productivity
- Create standard customer service responses.
- Acknowledge customer orders and send shipping advisories (with the current date and time automatically inserted into your standard text).
- Insert logos, product schematics, and maps.
- Auto-correct your most frequent typing errors.
Development productivity
- Create templates for code fragments, code blocks, and templates.
- Implement documentation standards.
- Define shorthands for frequently used Unix commands.
- Use the built-in HTML snippets to simplify and speed up editing of web pages.
'Typinator is one of those apps that I talk about to my non-tech friends. All of us at MacUpdate use it without fail for coding, content editing, technical support, and internal and external communications. It is lightweight and reliable, and the new feature that allows users to share ‘.tysets' has opened up even more possibilities for how we use this powerful utility at MacUpdate.
I cannot emphasize enough how different (and terrible) my work would be without this app!'
- Bryan, MacUpdate Editor and Consummate Nice Guy
For more information on how to type faster, visit the Features page
Main features
- Easy to configure - simply define your abbreviations, expansions, and boilerplates in a list.
- Simple to use - just type your abbreviation and Typinator will expand it.
- Integration with PopChar lets you easily find and insert arbitrary Unicode characters.
- Powerful predefined sets: Autocorrection for English, German, and French, DOuble CApitals correction, Auto-Capitalize Sentences, Inline Calculation, Clipboard conversion, Subscripts, Superscript, HTML snippets with over 100 abbreviations for elements of the HTML standard, and more.
- Synchronization support for Dropbox
Features marked with are new in Typinator 8.
Installation
To install Typinator, download it from our downloads page. Typinator is distributed as a macOS disk image disk image (DMG).
Once you have mounted the disk image, simply double-click the Typinator icon to install and launch Typinator.
As long as you do not have a license key, you can test Typinator in TextEdit as long and as often as you wish.
When you use Typinator in other applications, it will display a registration reminder after a couple of expansions.
Requirements
- Typinator 8 requires Mac OS X 10.8 or newer.
- For Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 use Typinator 7.9
- For Mac OS X 10.5 use Typinator 6.2
- For Mac OS X 10.4 use Typinator 4.5
- Typinator 8.6 or newer is recommended for macOS Catalina (10.15). IMPORTANT: Versions before 8.2 fail to launch on Catalina.
- Typinator 8.6 or newer is required for Big Sur (macOS 11).
- For further details, see our compatibility page.
Languages
The current version of Typinator is available in English, German, and French.
See also the special topics covered on our Tips pages.
Developer: Ergonis Software
Price: €20 (about $28)
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4. Universal.
Trial: Feature-limited (five shortcuts).
Computers are supposed to make us work faster and more accurately. However,there are times when we find ourselves typing the same text over and over,slowly and tediously. In some cases, it is possible to avoid the redundant workvia templates. In other cases, mail-merging skills or fancy programming know-howare needed. Luckily for the casual user, in some situations specializedsoftware like Typinator is all that you need.
Installation
Installing Typinator means mounting the disk image and dragging the applicationicon into the Applications folder, or wherever you want to keep it. Typinator'sdocumentation consists of a PDF file that also shows up on the disk image. (Toobad it's not built into the application.) My personal preference is to create aTypinator folder and keep the PDF and the application itself in that folder.Once you enter the license number, you are no longer restricted to having onlyfive abbreviations. Lastly, you'll probably want to select 'Automatically startTypinator at login' from the Preferences window.
Usage
I use my Mac mostly for e-mail and Web surfing, with some dabbling withPhotoshop and other specialized software that makes photos artsy. Untilrecently, I was lucky not to have to deal with repetitively typing the sameblocks of text. Late last year, I became involved with my high school's reunioncommittee and all of a sudden found myself sending the same e-mail messages tomany people. It has been over 24 years since I graduated, and even though themany social networks out there are useful, not everyone keeps the same namesince high school. Many of the women took on the husbands' last names whileothers, perhaps for fear of identify theft or running away from the law, havenames that don't match the yearbook. I would tell these people about thereunion, then ask them what their names were in high school. Reaching out viathe social networks means filling out some Web forms, so using mail stationeryis out of the question. Typinator comes to the rescue!
Define an abbreviation then Typinator will save you keystrokes.
To use Typinator, you first setup an abbreviation, say NHS, short for 'NewtownHigh School.' As shown in the screenshot, I enter the text equivalent of theabbreviation in the Expansion box and the type of expansion to plain text. Thenext time I need to reach out to someone who might be interested in the reunion,I would go through the usual mouse-clicking to get to the e-mail Web form,just typing 'NHS' and the whole form would be filled with the expanded text.Typinator has been lurking in the background watching every keystroke andpounces when a recognized abbreviation is seen.
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To be exact, I could have entered 'nhs' and the expansion would still happenbecause I selected 'Case does not matter (~)' in the Typinator window. Note alsothat I checked off 'Whole word,' so that should I try to type the abbreviationfor Nathaniel Hawthorne State University (a name I just made up), the 'word' is'NHSU' and not 'NHS,' so the expansion won't happen.
Another nifty feature of Typinator that I made use in our example is theplacement of the cursor. After the introductory greeting, I had the special code{^}. I didn't type that but rather chose Cursor from the pop-up menu to theright of the expansion text. Not only is the text inserted, but the cursor isalso placed after 'Hi ' so I can type in the person's name. Other options arepictures, formatted text, and clipboard, although for my simple need of fillingout Web forms they were not used. Typinator wisely supports the use of prefixand suffix to indicate when to expand text.
Back to my example, to avoid expanding text whenever I type 'NHS,' I enabled theuse of the forward slash (/) as a suffix, so that 'NHS' no longer inserts anytext, but 'NHS/' does. Prefixes and suffixes can be applied to any one entireset so you don't need to update each entry manually. If I want to have aone-time suspension of Typinator, I can choose Pause from its icon in the menubar.
Use Prefix or Suffix to avoid having text mistakenly expanded.
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You can have multiple Abbreviation Sets, and Typinator comes with a fewpredefined sets, too. With these extra sets, Typinator not only functions as atext expander but also as a system-wide spellchecker. There are AutoCorrectionsets for American English, British English, French, and German. For those whotype in English, there is also the TidBITS AutoCorrection set in American and British English. Thestandard AutoCorrection sets contain only 831 entries. With 2,302 entries, theTidBITS set greatly reduces the chance of making common typing mistakes, likeentering '10-BaseT' instead of '10Base-T' or 'anser' instead of 'answer.' If youalready use a text expander like TypeIt4Me or TextExpander, you can import setsfrom those applications
With Predefined Sets, Typinator can serve as a system-wide spellchecker.
Crowded House
The market that Typinator is in is a crowded one. Features and price play animportant role in influencing the buyers. Price-wise, Typinator holds its ownwell against TextExpander and TypeIt4Me. Typinator can be bought alone for €20or about $28, at the time ofthis writing. Both TextExpander and TypeIt4Me cost in the neighborhood of $30 aswell. Typinator can also be bought as part of the Mactility Bundle, which runsat €44 or about $60. The bundle includes KeyCue, PopChar X, and Typinator.Depending on how you value PopChar X and KeyCue, Typinator may cost less thanthe competition. I just reviewed PopChar X in the July 2009 issue of ATPM.
While Typinator runs bug-free, has a decent set of features, and iswell-documented, what it really needs is a way to expand text by selecting froma list. I only use a few abbreviations so I have no problems memorizing them. IfI use multiple sets with each set having many entries, I am sure I will easilylose track of what the abbreviations expand to. I would need to bring theTypinator window forward to read the abbreviations and their definitions, butthen would go back to my document and type the proper keystrokes. Why not justallow me to click on the entry and carry out the expansion right from theTypinator window? TypeIt4Me already has the feature. While it may be true thatTypinator has other advantages over TypeIt4Me, for Typinator not to haveclickable expanding is a serious omission.
Conclusion
Typinator works well as a text expansion utility. Creating abbreviations iseasy, and Typinator is flexible in executing the expansions. It can becase-sensitive and can detect whole words. The use of prefixes and suffixesmeans you can change all the abbreviations in a set together and not have toedit one by one. The inclusion of predefined sets like TidBITS AutoCorrectionis a plus. Unfortunately, Typinator is in a crowded market and lacks a crucialfeature that a competitor already offers, namely the ability to expand text byclicking on items in a list. The best rating I can give Typinator is Good.
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